Armband clasp



F. C. MORTUN.

ARMBAND CLASP.

APPLICATloN FILED MAH. 1o, 1922.

L?. Patented oct. 31,1922.

Patented @et 3l, i922..

UNITED sfr-Ars S PTNTW*OFFICa] FREDERIC C. MOR/TON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOE T0 THE ANSONIA O & C CO., OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

ARMBAND CLASP.

Application led March 10, 1922. Serial No. 542,628.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, Fnnnnnio C. Monroe?, a citizen of the United States, residing; `at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Armband Clasps; and I do hereby declare they following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon. to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent,'in*

F ig'. 1 A perspective view of an arm-band provided with one form which my improved clasp may assume.

Fig. 2 An enlarged, broken. sectional view thereof on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 An enlarged view thereof in transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4f A detached perspective view of the clasp, after it has been given its final form.

Fig. 5 A similar view of the clasp in its" initial form.

Fig. 6 A view of one of the modified forms which the clasp may assume.

My invention relates to an improvement in arm-band clasps, such as are employed for binding the bows of arm-bands over the joints created by uniting the ends of the elastic webbing thereof, the object being to produce an efficient and ornamental clasp constructed with especial reference to engaging,r the material so as to hold it against displacement, and to avoiding the buckling of the metal when the clasp is bent into its final form. and particularly the cracking or flaking` of the enamel or other finish of the metal, if any superficial finish is employed.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in an arm-band clasp having the edges of its face-portion formed with localizedinwardly-turned flanges for the indentation and gripping of the fabric, these ears being confined to those portions o-f the clasp which are not bent in clasping the saine upon the band.

My invention further consists in an armband clasp having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim. l

In carrying' out my invention, It form.

localized inwardly-turned gripping-fiangfes 10 upon the opposite edges of the central portion or `face 11 of the clasp, which is produced from a single piece of metal, and the ends 12 of which are made long enough to be folded under the face 11 ofthe clasp in a plane substantially parallel therewith, and so as to nearly meet. o It willbe observed, by

kreference to Figs. .tand 5 in particular, that the bending of thewclasp from its initial U- shaped form, as shown by Fig, 5, to its final flattened tubular form, as shown by the preceding figures, imposes no strain upon the inwardly-turned iianges 10, whichare localized, so to speak, and thus rendered immune from bending strains, whereas, when the edges of the clasps are flanged from end to end. which is the common practice, they will buckle and crimp, and if enameled or finished, the same i will be fiaked off or checked and disfigured. v

When my improved band is applied over the bow 13. which in turn is applied over the elastic webbing- 14C at the joint 15 thereof, the

flanges 10 sufficiently embed themselves in the fabric of the bow, as shown in Fig. 2, to

hold the clasp against lateral displacement with respect to the bow and webbing. rl"he `bow is thus held in place over the joint `of the webbing, and the joint thereof concealed and protected. ln addition to these functions. the clasp provides an attractive finish for the arm-band.

In the modified construction, shown by Fig. 6, the clasp 15 is made on the same principle as that already described, but given a cylindrical rather than a liattened tubular form,`the retaining-ears 16 being, in this instance` so short as not to be bent or dis-y g3` l n Y o 1,433,337

tionl to escape bending When the said arms specification in the presence of two subscribzre clasped upon the armband, vereby the ing witnesses.

nish upon the face-portion an anges of p 4 w f the Claspl s not disturbed and Amutilated y u FRLDDRIF C' MOBION SWhenlthe armsreceive thernl bendingin WIIIGSSBSI applying theclasp to an arm-bend. FREDERIC C. EARLE,

In testimony whereof, I have signed this MALCOLM P. NICHOLS. 

